I had a similar problem. It turned out to be a bad cd-rom drive (or a bad IDE-to-SATA adapter that the drive was using). I disconnected both. The problem disappeared. I installed a new SATA drive. The problem has not re-appeared.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810791 Title: Softreset failed (device not ready) with Gigabyte motherboard Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: I originally reported this in Bug 285392. However, I'm not sure that this is the same bug, or a different one with the same symptom. I am seeing this problem on a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 motherboard. I have tried changing the BIOS setting for both AHCI and IDE modes. I get the same error upon boot. After a reboot I have been seeing this error randomly all the time. Sometimes it seems to work ok, sometimes not. I have done 2 dist-upgrades from Lucid (10.04.2 LTS ) to Maverick ( 10.10 ) to Natty ( 11.04 ). This bug has been present in all of these versions of Ubuntu. Boot messages follow: The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery [ 1.740026] ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 1.740032] ata6: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 1.740058] ata5: softreset failed (device not ready) [ 1.740062] ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) init: udevtrigger main process (467) terminated with status 1 init: udevtrigger post-stop process (471) terminated with status 1 init: udevmonitor main process (466) killed by TERM signal udevd[453]: specified group 'camera' unknown Ever since Lucid, there are 2 problems with this motherboard that I've been having: 1) It doesn't seem to boot correctly from the first HDD if USB-HDD or CDROM are anywhere above in the boot priority list 2) Every so often I still get the "softreset" and "The disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present" errors (This is random.. it's usually /home, /, or whatever other partition happens to complain). AHCI vs IDE modes in the BIOS don't change anything. I'm guessing it's a Gigabyte motherboard issue, or something to do with the ATI SB7x0 chipset. So far I haven't tried compiling a new kernel with "CONFIG_SATA_PMP=n" yet... but that seems like it might work... References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468800 http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git-commits-head/2008/6/14/2122314 http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1052987.html http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2642.msg33590#msg33590 --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:240: no soundcards found... Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:240: no soundcards found... AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC2: trinitronx 2433 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: trinitronx 2433 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory CheckboxSubmission: d6dd0471f36d4aed9362bfdc71eb18b9 CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=19b226f0-b1dc-4c53-99c8-c585ffe9d167 InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406) IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA74GM-S2 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: linux (not installed) ProcEnviron: LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=fcd55128-66e2-41ad-ab3a-606c165b2102 ro quiet splash noacpi noapm vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.52 RfKill: Tags: natty running-unity Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-30 (19 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare video WifiSyslog: Jul 19 12:52:53 saturn kernel: [260899.520036] TCP: Peer 77.114.168.45:54569/49317 unexpectedly shrunk window 1213338602:1213342756 (repaired) Jul 19 12:54:01 saturn kernel: [260967.520038] TCP: Peer 77.114.168.45:54569/49317 unexpectedly shrunk window 1213338602:1213342756 (repaired) Jul 19 12:56:02 saturn kernel: [261087.840039] TCP: Peer 77.114.168.45:54569/49317 unexpectedly shrunk window 1213338602:1213342756 (repaired) dmi.bios.date: 04/17/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F1 dmi.board.name: GA-MA74GM-S2 dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF1:bd04/17/2008:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-MA74GM-S2:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-MA74GM-S2:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: GA-MA74GM-S2 dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 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